An Integrated Clinical and Engineering Approach to Biomaterials Science Now Available from CRC Press

June 13, 2012 - PRLog -- Going far beyond the coverage in most standard books on the subject, Biomaterials Science: An Integrated Clinical and Engineering Approach offers a solid overview of the use of biomaterials in medical devices, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.

Combining discussion of materials science and engineering perspectives with clinical aspects, this book emphasizes integration of clinical and engineering approaches. In particular, it explores various applications of biomaterials in fields including tissue engineering, neurosurgery, hemocompatibility, BioMEMS, nanoparticle-based drug delivery, dental implants, and obstetrics/gynecology.

The book engages those engineers and physicians who are applying biomaterials at various levels to:

   Increase the rate of successful deployment of biomaterials in humans

   Lower the side-effects of such a deployment in humans

   Accumulate knowledge and experience for improving current methodologies

   Incorporate information and understanding relevant to future challenges, such as permanent artificial organ transplants

Using a variety of contributors from both the clinical and engineering sides of the fields mentioned above, this book stands apart by emphasizing a need for the often lacking approach that integrates these two equally important aspects.

Praise

"… offers a good overview of biomaterials as medical devices, drug delivery and tissue engineering systems. The emphasis is on integrating clinical and engineering approaches. In particular, the book covers various applications of biomaterials in unmet clinical needs in variety of fields … covers areas such as regulatory challenges and commercialization issues."
—From the Foreword by Robert Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA

"This book is essential when designing, developing and studying biomedical materials.… provides an excellent review—from a patient, disease, and even genetic point of view—of materials engineering for the biomedical field. I found very interesting facts about patient study combined with clinical study of materials. This well presented book strongly insists on how the materials can influence patients’ needs, the ultimate drive for biomedical engineering.

"Bring[s] a new … very strong focus [on the] clinical point of view…[offers] a very interesting insight into biomedical engineering, where clinicians and engineers have to understand each other to provide specific solutions to the medical device field…[presents an] Interesting and innovative review from a patient focus perspective—the book emphasizes the importance of the patients, which is not often covered in other biomedical material’s books."

—Fanny Raisin-Dadre, BioInteractions Ltd., Berkshire, England

"The success of current and emerging biomedical technologies centers on multiple factors including device design, host foreign body reaction to the biomaterial, regulatory reviews, market needs, and patient-centered factors such as co-morbidity and underlying pathologies. The later point needs to be further emphasized in biomaterial education and training. This book highlights these critical elements in carefully selected case studies that are relevant and up to date. The advancement of biomaterials and medical devices require a multidisciplinary team approach including clinical insights. Drs. Rosen, Elman, and Horowitz effectively brought these interwoven topics together in this well presented reference book."

— W. John Kao, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

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ISBN 9781439804049, June 2012, 310 pp, $149.95